Members of the Hampton Roads and Richmond chapters of Team Red White and Blue began a 51-mile flag relay in Williamsburg on the morning of September 11 that will end at the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial in Richmond.

William and Mary came in at No. 12 among Top Public Schools in the nation for 2020 in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings. For the 35th edition of U.S. News Best Colleges, it looked at 1,400 colleges and universities -- the 2020 rankings were released Monday.

William and Mary was ranked No. 12 in the U.S. News and World Report’s Top Public Schools in the nation in 2020. For the 35th edition of U.S. News Best Colleges, it looked at 1,400 colleges and universities -- the 2020 rankings were released today.

In the school’s first open, campus-wide forum on strategic planning, William and Mary’s Steering Committee and President Katherine Rowe asked more than 100 faculty, staff and students to think about how the school should prepare for the future.

The South Side Strangler in Richmond didn’t differentiate his victims by who they were, by their age, and he could never have guessed his conviction would be the first in American history based on DNA evidence.

As William and Mary’s 1,540 new students walked through the historic Wren Building toward campus, out the doors and into a sea of their upperclassmen peers, cheering and waving signs that said, “You belong” the class of 2023 began their story.